Survey results: Summary

Survey results: Summary

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Q11: Favorite aspects of GIS courses

  • New skills/methods
  • Applying GIS to “real” situations, projects
  • Making maps
  • Critical thinking
  • [Specific analyses: cost surface modeling, land classification]

Q12: Least favorite aspects of GIS courses

  • Quizzes/knowledge reviews
  • Learning curve/pace/details, keeping up with instructor during labs, workload,
  • [Specific topics: Geostatistics, classification, remote sensing, projections
  • Long write ups
  • Troubleshooting ArcGIS, crashes
  • Learning tools not likely to use
  • Lectures

Q13: Things you want to take away from the course

  • PYTHON, coding + GIS (GIS in R)
  • Confidence/comfort/independence in GIS
  • Non-ESRI GIS
  • ArcGIS Online
  • Use crowdsourced data/raw data in GIS
  • Use GIS w/o becoming labeled a specialist

Q19: Other topics

  • Using Big data/working with data (Data Science)
  • Storymaps
  • QGIS
  • Other coding languages
  • Specific topics: [landscape assessment/Energy]
  • Sharing data
  • GIS in R
  • GIS in “the real world”